This week’s podcast is about Magazine Luiza / Magalu and how they ended up as the pioneers of online-merge-offline (OMO) in Brazil retail. It’s a fascinating business model.

You can listen to this podcast here or at iTunes and Google Podcasts.

Here are my three strategy questions about Magalu:

• Big Question #1: Will Magalu Become an "Ultimate B2C Marketplace"? 
• Big Question #2: Will Magalu go full OMO? Will they be more aggressive in retail formats?
• Big Question #3: Will Magalu go full "infrastructure of commerce"?

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From the Concept Library, concepts for this article are:

• OMO / New Retail
• Infrastructure of Commerce
• Brazil

From the Company Library, companies for this article are:

• Magazine Luiza / Magalu

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